We met this wild, mad scientist guy in town awhile back. He was totally into absinthe, and we were like whoa, you mean absinthe, as in Van Gogh cutting off his ear and Verlaine and Rimbaud? And he was like yes exactly. He had three bottles and wanted to do a ritual so we decorated [...]

Because he didn’t have his paperwork in order. In fact, if the USDA has its way, no animal in the country will be crossing the road without getting an identification number and filling out the proper forms. The National Animal Identification System (NAIS), brainchild of govcorp schemers, aims to create a system with the not [...]

Why You Should Stock Up On Your Favorite Stuff. Every single thing that we buy, whether it’s a consumer item or food, comes from a supplier, probably a retail store. The supplier gets the goods from a distributor, who gets them from a manufacturer. The manufacturer makes or assembles their products from materials that they [...]

Backwoods Hipster, in a cross-disciplinary coup, fuses facets of the modern and old worlds to present an amusing yet germane view of our culture. Anthropology, preparedness, homesteading, food preservation, economics, history, magic, conspiranoia, politics, etcetera, etcetera. We sense a thread running through our culture and it ties together people who want to live free, want [...]